Meet Barbara Boone
Certified Productive Environment Specialist, Speaker & Author
Barbara Boone spent twenty-five years in the field of education where she honed her organizing skills and got a second master’s degree in professional writing. She has incorporated the skills of educating, writing, and speaking into her innovative organizing & productive environment consultancy called Productivity Solutions.
Having recently become the first certified Productive Environment Specialist in Maryland through the prestigious Productive Environment Institute in Carolina Beach, North Carolina; Barbara’s organizing services which are tailored to particularly meet the needs of small businesses & busy professionals will be further enhanced. Through this certification she now offers a wider range of efficient & effective products and services to assist her clients in creating a more intentional setting in which everything around them supports who they are and what they want to become.
Formerly Busy Bee Organizing Services, Productivity Solutions is a Cockeysville-based company whose mission is to help new businesses create and sustain the most productive and efficient work environment possible. Productivity Solutions also works with existing businesses helping them find a more sustainable approach to productivity & organizing. Barbara is particularly passionate about helping others who are in the process of creating a business from scratch because that is what she has done for herself. She enjoys putting together all of the pieces of the puzzle and providing her clients with an easy to navigate road map for organizational & productivity success. Barbara not only consults with hands-on organizing, but she frequently educates the business community through seminars & presentations related to increasing organizing skills & raising productivity. She regularly contributes to a number of publications and also publishes an informative monthly newsletter.
Barbara is an expert author on the websites, eZines.com, Divatoolbox.com, Mind-Perk.com and MyCity4Her.com. She has also written articles for NABBW.com (National Association of Baby Boomer Women), NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) National newsletter, On Purpose Woman Magazine, and Chesapeake Home Magazine. In September, 2009 she was featured in the blog for NABBW.com. Barbara also authors her own blog on the website online organizing.com.
For the last four years Barbara has participated in a variety of business organizations and networking events. She was president and vice-president of her local BNI chapter. Because of her strong desire to connect with and assist other business owners, she was secretary and education chair for the Baltimore chapter of NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) from 2007 until 2009. She remains active within the organization & attends meetings regularly as well as other local networking events.
Barbara is an engaging, expert speaker and can be called upon to tailor either a presentation for several or organize a training session for a few participants.
NAPO Baltimore Presents at IKEA
On February 20, 2010, the Baltimore chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers gave two presentations to the public at the Baltimore, White Marsh IKEA store. Barbara Boone of Productivity Solutions gave a presentation in the office work area where she showed how to create a productive work space by using the 5-step productive environment process. She also told participants the six essentials of a productive office. Participants were taking notes and a few were ready to set up their home offices.
NAPO members talk to IKEA customers
Hereford Zone Association Business Expo
On February 20, 2010, Productivity Solutions was a vendor at the Hereford Zone Association Business Expo.
Seminar: The Six “Must Haves” for Every
Productive Office
presented at the office of Cole Younger-Sandler Sales Training, Towson, Maryland
Participants took away the following information:
- Know what desktop tools are necessary to manage paper flow in and out of the office
- Know whether to throw away, shred or toss documents to avoid piles of paper
- Know how to use a calendar to schedule appointments, projects, or to-dos so that you are in control of your time
- Know the importance of a contact management system so that you can easily find prospect’s email address and phone number when you need it
- Know how to set up and manage action and reference files so that you can file and find all documents quickly
